On Wednesday 2010-04-21 14:59, Patrick McHardy wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> The SYSRQ target will allow to remotely invoke sysrq on the local >> machine. Authentication is by means of a pre-shared key that can >> either be transmitted plaintext or digest-secured. > >I really think this is pushing what netfilter is meant for a bit >far. Its basically abusing the firewall ruleset to offer a network >service. > >I can see that its useful to have this in the kernel instead of >userspace, but why isn't this implemented as a stand-alone module? >That seems like a better design to me and also makes it more useful >by not depending on netfilter. That sort of diverts from the earlier what-seemed-to-be-consensus. Oh well, I would not mind holding the single commit up as long as the rest isn't blocked too :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
